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Good evening everybody. It is my pleasure to be the moderator tonight for professor Kermit Roosevelt. As you probably know, he is the greatgreatgrandson of Theodore Roosevelt. Roy we discussed beforehand whether there is a shorter word than greatgreatgrandson in english, but apparently there is not. So, that is so we are stuck with. The honor of having him here though, is much more founded in his skill in both his legal backgrounds and in his writing ability, he has produced several books on constitutional law, u. S. G served as a clerk to Supreme Court under Justice David souter. He has writt...

Books on law. Tonight, there will be at least some discussion about his latest novel, entitled allegiance. It is about the incarceration of the japanese during the second world war. That is enough for me. Let me introduce professor Kermit Roosevelt to you. [applause] prof. Roosevelt iii thank you for that introduction. Thank you all for coming, it is a will pleasure to be here. Im going to talk about the significance of Theodore Roosevelts vision of the constitution and it will connect to some larger ideas about who we are, and we want to be. The constitution is our central organizing document...

As you probably know, he is the greatgreatgrandson of Theodore Roosevelt. We discussed beforehand whether there is a shorter word than greatgreatgrandson in english, but apparently there is not. So, that is so we are stuck with. The honor of having him here though, is much more founded in his skill in both his legal backgrounds and in his writing ability, he has produced several books on constitutional law, having served as a clerk to u. S. Supreme court under Justice David souter. He has written both novels and books on law. Tonight, there will be at least some discussion about his latest nov...

Sarah, this trip will be pretty significant . As you know, president obama broke the diplomatic freeze between us and the communist island that had been maintained by 10 u. S. President s. That move opened up travel between places like tampa to cuba and paved the way for folks here to hop on a flight to cuba. So, its no surprise a white house official has confirmed president obama is jumping on the opportunity to go. Two months ago in an interview, president obama said he was interested in visiting cuba before the end of his term, but that the conditions have to be right. He wanted to see chan...

But first, i want to take a cue from adam mckay who was the former lead writer for saturday night live, and he once said theres nothing that people love more than a Federal Reserve joke. [laughter] so i will tell you a joke. And it is a joke by a Federal Reserve chair, yam martin, who served from 1951970 under five president s. Yo i may have heard this before you may have heard this before, i be i i this but i think its worth stating. The job of the Federal Reserve, he famously said s to take away the punch bowl just before the party gets going. [laughter] so tonight were going to be learn the...